"Jeremy spoke in class today . . . "

[Lex]

Can't get this Pearl Jam song from 1993 out of my head today. Am I the only one?

"Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Try to forget this...
Try to erase this...
From the blackboard."

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I can't get this one out of my head.

Last night, I couldn't sleep because I kept hearing it.

I Don't Like Mondays

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

[treestar]

2. I hadn't thought of it, but now that you remind me of it, it sure fits

Our cultures seems aware it has this problem, but seems stymied to figure out why.

[hippiechick]

3. ... because it's easier to stigmatize people as "lone nuts"

or "anti-social, depressed, moody outsiders" than to look at the culture and see how it chews up and spits out people who aren't strong enough - or dumb enough - to get through the gauntlets.

[Greyhound]

9. You bet, and until we address the causes of this, we will continue to suffer

the consequences of our neglect. What the hell does it take to make people see that WE ALL PAY FOR THIS, and it won't go away, no matter how long we continue to ignore it!

[seemslikeadream]

4. Ooh, but we unleashed a lion...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNO6pAJBCs4

At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops
With him on top lemin yellow sun, arms raised in a v
And the dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didnt give attention
Oh, to the fact that mommy didnt care
King jeremy the wicked...oh, ruled his world...
Jeremy spoke in class today...

Clearly I remember pickin on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
Ooh, but we unleashed a lion...
Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess ladys breast...
How can I forget?
And he hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurtin...ooh, dropped wide open
Just like the day...oh, like the day I heard

Daddy didnt give affection, no...
And the boy was something that mommy wouldnt wear
King jeremy the wicked...oh, ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today...
Woo...
Try to forget this...try to forget this...
Try to erase this...try to erase this...
]from the blackboard...

Jeremy spoke in class today...
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in...
Jeremy spoke in class today...
Woo...
Woooooohhh...spoke in, spoke in...
Woooooohhh...uh huh, uh huh...

[Ninja Jordan]

5. This killer isn't Jeremy. He has no sympathy.

[Lex]

8. You missed the point of "speaking in class"

i.e. letting a gun do the "speaking."

The Jeremy that Pearl Jam speaks of however turned the gun on himself so there are, of course, differences.

[ProgressiveFool]

6. More like "Only a Lad" by Oingo Boingo

nt

[treestar]

11. Or "I Don't Like Mondays"

[BlooInBloo]

7. Not *now* I can't -- thanks! (grrrr)

[ellisonz]

10. I agree "Jeremy's more than."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_theory_%28sociology%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_association